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A collection of cookbooks featuring recipes shared by Hawaii's Chef Sam Choy. See also our collection of Recipes from Hawaii, general information about Dining in Hawaii and our Hawaii Travel Guide.

About Chef Sam Choy

Sam Choy is a popular chef, restaurant owner, newspaper columnist, cookbook author, and television personality in Hawaii. In 1991 he founded the Sam Choy Poke Festival on the Big Island of Hawaii and in 2004 he was awarded the James Beard Foundation Award for his Kaloko restaurant in Kailua Kona.

Cookbooks by Sam Choy

Here are all Sam Choy's cookbooks, with the most recently published cookbooks on top. Notethat All of the Sam Choy cookbook links on this page go to Amazon.com where you will find reader reviews, publisher descriptions, and more information about each book. Some of the older books on this page will be hard to find, but you can still purchase most of them as used books at Amazon and other online used book stores.

Sam Choy's Little Hawaiian Poke Cookbook
	AUTHOR: Sam Choy and Elizabeth Meahl PUBLISHER: Mutual Publishing DATE PUBLISHED: November 2004 DIMENSIONS: 0.5 x 4.5 x 6.0 inches NUMBER OF PAGES: 80
Sam Choy and the Makaha Sons: A Hawaiian Luau
	AUTHOR: Sam Choy, Lynn Cook, Dougles Peebles PUBLISHER: Mutual Publishing DATE PUBLISHED: November 1, 2003 DIMENSIONS: 1.0 x 6.5 x 9.0 inches NUMBER OF PAGES: 164
Sam Choy's Little Hawaiian Cookbook for Big Appetites
	AUTHOR: Sam Choy and Elizabeth Meahl PUBLISHER: Mutual Publishing DATE PUBLISHED: November 1, 2003 DIMENSIONS: 0.2 x 4.5 x 6.2 inches NUMBER OF PAGES: 60
Sam Choy's Polynesian Kitchen
	AUTHOR: Sam Choy PUBLISHER: Hyperion DATE PUBLISHED: 2002 DIMENSIONS: 9.6 x 7.5 x 1.1 inches NUMBER OF PAGES: 288
Sam Choy's Cooking With Kids
	AUTHOR: Sam Choy PUBLISHER: Mutual Publishing DATE PUBLISHED: January 2001 DIMENSIONS: 0.8 x 6.5 x 9.0 inches NUMBER OF PAGES: 168
Sam Choy Woks the Wok
	AUTHOR: Sam Choy PUBLISHER: Mutual Publishing DATE PUBLISHED: January 2001 DIMENSIONS: 0.8 x 6.5 x 9.0 inches NUMBER OF PAGES: 160
Sam Choy's Sampler
	AUTHOR: Sam Choy PUBLISHER: Mutual Publishing DATE PUBLISHED: November 1, 2000 DIMENSIONS: 0.8 x 6.2 x 8.8 inches NUMBER OF PAGES: 152
Sam Choy's Cooking: Island Cusine at Its Best
	AUTHOR: Sam Choy and Catherine Enomoto PUBLISHER: Mutual Publishing DATE PUBLISHED: February 1, 2000 DIMENSIONS: 1.0 x 10.0 x 10.2 inches NUMBER OF PAGES: 229
Sam Choy's Island Flavors
	AUTHOR: Sam Choy, U'i and Steven Goldsberry PUBLISHER: Hyperion DATE PUBLISHED: April 14, 1999 DIMENSIONS: 9.6 x 7.8 x 1.2 inches NUMBER OF PAGES: 352
Sam Choy's Kitchen
	AUTHOR: Sam Choy, Lynn Cook, Joannie Dobbs PUBLISHER: Mutual Publishing DATE PUBLISHED: 1999 DIMENSIONS: 1.0 x 8.0 x 9.8 inches NUMBER OF PAGES: 256
Sam Choy's Poke
	AUTHOR: Sam Choy and Randall Francisco PUBLISHER: Mutual Publishing DATE PUBLISHED: 1999 DIMENSIONS: 1.2 x 7.5 x 9.2 inches NUMBER OF PAGES: 150
The Choy of Seafood
	AUTHOR: Sam Choy PUBLISHER: Mutual Publishing DATE PUBLISHED: May 1998 DIMENSIONS: 1.0 x 10.5 x 10.8 NUMBER OF PAGES: 216
The Choy of Cooking
	AUTHOR: Sam Choy and Catherine Enomoto PUBLISHER: Mutual Publishing DATE PUBLISHED: October 1996 DIMENSIONS: 1.0 x 10.5 x 10.5 NUMBER OF PAGES: 228
With Sam Choy: Cooking From the Heart
	AUTHOR: Sam Choy PUBLISHER: Mutual Publishing DATE PUBLISHED: September 1995 DIMENSIONS: 1.0 x 10.5 x 10.5 inches
Sam Choy's Cuisine Hawaii
AUTHOR: Sam Choy PUBLISHER: Pleasant Hawaii DATE PUBLISHED: 1990 NUMBER OF PAGES: 168

Resources

- Sam Choy's Official Web Site
- Sam Choy's MidWeek Column
- Poke Contest Founded by Sam Choy
- Sam Choy's Koloko Wins Beard Award

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